Statistics: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

Practice calculating and understanding the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and dispersion (range) with various data sets.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fisher's family has five children aged 9, 12, 7, 16 and 13. What is the median age?

  1. 7
  2. 13
  3. 9
  4. 12
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the mode of the given data?
8, 11, 9, 14, 9, 15, 18, 6, 9, 10

  1. 6
  2. 8
  3. 9
  4. 15
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The mean of a data set is 35. If 21 is added to the each observation of set, how does the mean get affected?

  1. Increase
  2. Decrease
  3. Does not change
  4. Insufficient information
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean of the given data.
157.5, 152.5, 165.7, 151.3, 160.6, 156.4

  1. 156.4
  2. 156
  3. 157.3
  4. 165.4
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The mean price of 5 items is £7. The price of the first four items is £6.50, £8, £5.50 and £6. How much does the fifth item cost?

  1. £8.50
  2. £9
  3. £7
  4. £9.5
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the mean of the first 10 whole numbers?

  1. 4.5
  2. 5
  3. 5.5
  4. 6
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The average of 5 quantities is 6. The average of 3 of them is 8. What is the average of remaining two numbers?

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 6
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the mode of the given data?
7, 5, 56, 89, 75, 45

  1. 5
  2. 45
  3. 89
  4. No mode
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the range of the given data.
2, 15, 3, 3, 25, 17

  1. 2
  2. 12
  3. 19
  4. 23
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the range of the given data set.
8, 9, 6, 4, 9, 9, 9, 15, 5, 4

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean of the given data.
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 14, 20, 18

  1. 14.5
  2. 15
  3. 17
  4. 18.5
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the range of the given data.
8, 9, 6, 4, 9, 9, 9, 10, 5, 3

  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 9
  4. 11
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mode of letters given.
T, P, Q, Q, T, P, T, Q, T

  1. T
  2. P
  3. Q
  4. P, Q
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean of the given data.
11, 13, 15, 9, 11, 21, 11

  1. 13
  2. 15
  3. 17
  4. 19
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The points scored by Jeff in various subjects are 79, 59, 61, 59, 70, 62 and 65. Find the mode of the data.

  1. 59
  2. 60
  3. 61
  4. 62
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean of the given data set.
22, 25, 29, 22, 25, 25, 22, 38

  1. 30
  2. 26
  3. 25
  4. 23
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the median of the data set?
1, 2, 12, 15, 9, 5, 7, 56, 33, 55, 20

  1. 9.5
  2. 12
  3. 55
  4. 56
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Number of eggs sold by a shopkeeper in eight days were 11, 9, 9, 11, 11, 8, 9 and 20. Find the mean number of eggs sold.

  1. 11
  2. 14
  3. 19
  4. 24
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The given data shows number of students sitting is different buses. Find the mean of given data.
19, 18, 29, 20, 18, 14, 23

  1. 20.14
  2. 22.61
  3. 25.31
  4. 27.29
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the median of given data.
18, 24, 8, 9, 6

  1. 6
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 12
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the range of given data.
6, 8, 12, 4, 5, 3

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mode of given data.
22, 18, 10, 5, 18, 20, 21, 16, 10, 5, 10

  1. 22
  2. 18
  3. 12
  4. 10
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mean of five values is 21. If four values are 12, 29, 32 & 18, find the fifth value.

  1. 10
  2. 12
  3. 14
  4. 16
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean of given data.
28, 14, 39, 42, 27

  1. 28
  2. 30
  3. 32
  4. 36
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Natasha scored 49, 48, 42, 39 in her tests. She wants to achieve an average of 44 marks. How much should she score in the next test?

  1. 36
  2. 38
  3. 40
  4. 42

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